Thread: What I did right to increase my traffic

What I did right to increase my traffic

Read the threads here and other SEO forums

Created some sites using standard CMS code

Modded for SEO
Researched Keywords
Modded title to be different on every page

Used RSS feeds to popular content
Waited for Googles Sand pit to expire

Removed RSS content and went for user content

Created a widget to generate back links
Created a toolbar to generate back links

Waited.....

Made minor mods to
Keywords
Title
Description
On Page SEO
Off Page SEO

Waited.....

Researched web logs

Waited.....

Took a year but now the sites running over 300-500 hits a day and growing quickly.

Added some spam mods
Checked the logs and removed troublesome countries and IP's

Waited......

Added some mods to promote free promotion techniques to then promote my other sites....

Waited and Watched.....

Forgot about Google PR .....(didnt loose sleep)

Waited.....

Researched and waited to maximize keywords.....

Removed rel="dofollow" as it was harming results......

Waited....

Increase in traffic is huge and really....really growing.....

Checked the content and banned some spammers adding massive keywords....

Made sure content was King....

Added more spam mods and spam lists.....

Waited....

Massive gain in traffic again....tripled to 15000+ hits a day....

Natural backlinks thru the toolbar and widget......this was the increase in traffic.....

Added link to major social networks.....

Added some hub pages on Squidoo, Myspace, Bebo....etc

Promoted content on Stumble and yep waited.....

Traffic just keeps on coming....

Moved host to new unlimted plan.....

Dreams can come true so visit Social Networking

Funny as I didnt believe SEO and content is but king at first but now i do.

The more I read the web stats the and the more I slightly change keywords, desc, title, content the more traffic.

Really basic stuff but the trick is to wait and watch.

I think we get sucker into changing and then expecting a change to occur, this is not how it happens.

Wait and watch, wait and watch........

See what users think by using clickheat as a example see what users think but reading stats....make educated guess's based on this.

Clickheat showed me how important search was.... it turned out to be the most used and clicked on portion of the site.

I changed the mysql query to more suit a better returned result..... hence more hits due to better user experience.....strange but true.....

Widgets increased the back links, increased the traffic and hence search becomes more important....

Look at the stats and see how many pages a typical user browses....pick on the user with 20-30 % more pages and see what they were after....

Change the site to reflect this but keep in my this is one user....

Truly this works as my site is the proof....

Some other SEO stuff to think about

On page and off page SEO.

Made a new change and again waited to see the impact...point dont make to many changes in one hit because you will not be able to see if each one is a good or bad change....

So heres some more tips....

On page SEO

Changed the keywords, title and description to see a big big difference in stats.
Now I have reflected the above change in the logo image rather than a standard CMS image name. Took a while to find the code in the CMS but added some dynamic variables to the logo.

See the code below I have simply changed the name of the image to be my keywords.... rather than the second example

Example 1 the SEO On Page Change
<img src="images/linksprocket-Sports-Entertainment-Technology-Region-Travel-Social-News_image.jpg" />

Example 2 the non SEO CMS standard image name
<img src="images/logo.jpg" />

Now its missing some even more basic On Page SEO tags like alt and title

Example 3 On Page SEO Alt and Title
<img src="images/linksprocket-Sports-Entertainment-Technology-Region-Travel-Social-News_image.jpg" alt="Social Bookmarking" title="Add your bookmark"/>

Alt tags are a good way to get some more keywords on a page. Title is good for the user experience but allowing most of the popular browsers a privative tool tip...Remember most SE's dont read java script so use externally called .js and if you use tool tips go for the title tag.

The trick here is to not over pack keywords....
Make sure your keywords, description and title are also reflected in image names but do not occur more than 3-4 times.

I made these minor changes and again waited and watched....2-3 weeks to see the web stats reflecting user searches for my tags even on images....

This is a very simple On Page SEO trick that works....

Again dont expect the change to work over night....

Make the change watch and wait....if your stats reflect the change stay with it i.e you get more keyword searches hitting your site

Google

if the change show less web stats then again make another change but do all of this slowly....

Comments welcome as this is the forum where i learned to get a great SEOed site.

nice point buddy i think many webmaster's can learn from this post but i feel smell of copy pat in your post.....

wow great elaborated post really. thanks for sharing this pal.

Really a well done job, good hard work will definitely get you more traffic, thanks a lot for sharing.

nice post but please cite it.

himoacs sorry wasnt trying to pimp the site just show it can be done....

Heres the site Social Submission

Feedback welcome

wow nice post buddy thanks for sharing your experience keep it up!!!
your above link is not working linksprocket.com

govindseo hmmmm link worked for me and the site is running. It has been taken a huge hit traffic wise today. We seem to getting a post a minute.......

link is in case the above isnt working Linksprocket Social Bookmarking | Latest News Images Videos

Ideal is for users to be able to post a favorite site within 3 clicks. Most sites loose users due to a heavy registration process before they can post.

We get around the spam side with a lot of mods for spam......

Submitted a story about the site to Stumble and received a storm of traffic it dam near brought the site down due to a DOS.

Isnt with Stumble and similar sites is the traffic is not always based on critiqued traffic its more popular links get the traffic.

Again built in voting to only allow users feedback to produce quality content with a increased user experience being the over key to success.

Huge amounts of traffic is good if the user finds what they are looking for. I rather read my stats, make some minor changes to ensure users find what they need.

Webstats reflect this by seeing multiple users (say 20-50+) view muliple pages and not leave the site.

My webstats were showing the average time and page view to be one page one click. Now after 6 months of changes and reading stats the average user viewer time is 10-12 minutes 15-35 pages.

This I think reflects good content and strong loyal membership another key to a successful site.

Again comments welcome as SEO is a ART that is learned and continues to change.

Originally Posted by swapshop

govindseo hmmmm link worked for me and the site is running. It has been taken a huge hit traffic wise today. We seem to getting a post a minute.......

link is in case the above isnt working SNIP

Ideal is for users to be able to post a favorite site within 3 clicks. Most sites loose users due to a heavy registration process before they can post.

We get around the spam side with a lot of mods for spam......

Submitted a story about the site to Stumble and received a storm of traffic it dam near brought the site down due to a DOS.

Isnt with Stumble and similar sites is the traffic is not always based on critiqued traffic its more popular links get the traffic.

Again built in voting to only allow users feedback to produce quality content with a increased user experience being the over key to success.

Huge amounts of traffic is good if the user finds what they are looking for. I rather read my stats, make some minor changes to ensure users find what they need.

Webstats reflect this by seeing multiple users (say 20-50+) view muliple pages and not leave the site.

My webstats were showing the average time and page view to be one page one click. Now after 6 months of changes and reading stats the average user viewer time is 10-12 minutes 15-35 pages.

This I think reflects good content and strong loyal membership another key to a successful site.

Again comments welcome as SEO is a ART that is learned and continues to change.

Hi Buddy,
In my end your site show
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htaccess is blocking some spammers

whats the ip range you are coming from?

Originally Posted by swapshop

htaccess is blocking some spammers

whats the ip range you are coming from?

What you think i am spammers buddy!!!
My IP 203.123.36.125 and what's criteria u use when blocking some spam???

interesting not blocking the range

I have disallowed proxy access

Originally Posted by swapshop

interesting not blocking the range

I have disallowed proxy access

But i have still this massage!!!
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You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

are you using a proxy?

IP range isnt banned?

What country is the range from?

Originally Posted by swapshop

are you using a proxy?

IP range isnt banned?

What country is the range from?

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